The Ancestors and Descendants of
Albert Martin (1855-1923)
Fourth Generation

MARY GOCHENAUER was born at Pennsylvania on 10 March 1836 a daughter of John Gochenauer and his wife Lydia Elliot, and died at West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on 11 January 1916.[1] She never married. The probable father of her children was JOHN MARTIN, Jr. He was born at Pennsylvania about 1827-8, a son of John Martin and his wife Hannah Fagan.[2] He died sometime before 1887.

For an explanation of why I believe John Martin is the probable father of Mary Gochenauer's children, go to Who Was the father of Albert Martin (1855-1923?

Mary Gochenauer, single woman, had three children, all surnamed Martin. Census takers and other officials had difficulty comprehending this relationship; as a result their reporting is confused. However, from existing records a picture emerges of a young unmarried woman with children living first with her parents, then working out as a domestic servant in different homes, then later living with her children.

In the 1860 Census, Mary Gouchnauer was living with her parents in Providence Township, Lancaster County (Smithville Post Office). The family consisted of John Gouchnauer, 54. laborer, Lidia, 54, Mary, 24, Martha, 14, Alphred, 6, and Franklin, 2. John and Lidia are Mary's parents; Alphred [perhaps Albert] and Franklin are probably her children.[3] However Albert Martin, age 4, was also reported living with Henry and Keziah Eckman at Providence Township (New Providence Post Office).[4] Keziah was a sister of Mary Gochenauer. Henry Eckman was a second cousin of John Martin (b. 1827-8), they both being great grandchildren of Christian and Mary (Barr) Martin. John Martin (b. 1827-8) lived at Providence Township (New Providence Post Office), five census pages from Mary. John, 32, laborer, lived with his first cousin, Martin Lefevre, and his family. John and Martin were both grandchildren of John Barr and Alice (Kendig) Martin.

In 1870 Mary Gochnaur, 34, and her daughter Ada, 2, were living at Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, in the home of Jonathan and Fannie Stauffer. Mary was a domestic servant.[5] Albert Martin, 14, continued to live with Henry and Keziah Eckman, who had no children of their own.[6]

The 1880 Census reported a dispersed family. Mary Gochenaur, 42, single, servant, lived in the large household of Franklin and Mary Weaver, West Lampeter Township.[7] Albert Martin, 24, single, servant, in the household of Jacob and Barbara Heidelbach, of Pequea Township, Lancaster County, worked on the farm.[8] Ada Martin, 12, and her probable grandmother Hannah Martin, 83 were residing with William (63) and Hannah (58) Aument in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County.[9]

In 1900 Mary Gochenauer, 64, was living with her son Albert in Pequea Township.[10] Ada, who had married in 1887, was living at West Lampeter Township with her husband, Benjamin Herr, and their four children.[11]

In 1910, Mary Gochanauer, 74, was at West Lampeter Township, living with her daughter, Ida [Ada] (Martin) Herr, and son-in-law Benjamin Herr and their youngest child.[12] Albert Martin, 50, was boarding in a hotel in Lancaster, Lancaster County.[13]

Mary Gochenauer died in 1916. Her death certificate, below, confirms some of the details of her life:[14]

An obituary from an unidentified newspaper had been posted on the internet by Rodrick R. Reese; however it has since been taken down. The obituary reads:[15]

Obituary: (1-13-1916)
Death of Mrs. Mary Gochenour sudden death of Mrs. Mary Gochenour occurred on Tuesday at noon at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ada Herr in Lampeter. Death was due to apoplexy. Mrs. Gochenour is survived by the daughter named and two sons, Albert M., of Lancaster, and Frank H., of Eden Township. The funeral will be held on Friday morning at ten o'clock, with services at the Willow Street Mennonite Church at 11 o'clock. Interment will be made in the adjoining cemetery.

Mary's son Frank H. remains a mystery. I have found no reference to him beyond the 1860 Census and this obituary. A survey of census records, county directories, and Pennsylvania death records has turned up nothing that I can clearly identify with this person.

Concerning the probable father, John Martin, I have found nothing conclusive beyond the reports of the 1850 and 1860 censuses. If he was the father of Ada Martin, he would have still been alive when she was conceived in late 1866. Ada's marriage licenes in 1887 reported her father as deceased.

Mary Gochenauer had the following children:

  1. ALBERT5 MARTIN b. at Providence Township on 5 September 1855.
  2. FRANKLIN H.5 MARTIN b. at Pennsylvania about 1857-8.[16]
  3. ADA IRENE5 MARTIN b. at Providence Township on 30 September 1867, d. at Manheim Township, Lancaster County, on 30 September 1958;[17] m. at Lancaster on 11 December 1887 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HERR[18] b. at Lancaster County on 28 September 1863, d. at West Lampeter on 24 March 1942.[19] Children of Ada and Benjamin:[20]
    1. Charles Herr b. at Pennsylvania on March 1889.
    2. Ross Herr b. at Pennsylvania on January 1891.
    3. Florence Herr b. at Pennsylvania on February 1893.
    4. Walter Herr b. at Pennsylvania on July 1895
    5. Bertha F. Herr b. at Pennsylvania about 1900-1; m. about 1922-3 Vernon Butz b. at Lancaster on 8 November 1902, d. at Lancaster on 7 March 1933. Children of Bertha and Vernon:[21]
      1. Virginia Ruth Butz b. at Pennsylvania about 1921-2.
      2. Patricia Ann Butz b. at Pennsylvania about 1826-7.

NOTES

1Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 4411, Mary Gochnauer, 1916; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 June 2018); Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11, Series 11.90. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
2Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, population, Conestoga, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 787, p. 258B, household 102, John Martin family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 May 2015); NARA Microfilm Publication M432; Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
3Eighth Census of the United States: 1860, population, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1125, p. 598, household 101, John Gouchnauer family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 February 2018); NARA microfilm publication M653; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
41860 Census, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1125, p. 590, household 37, Henry Eckman family.
5Ninth Census of the United States: 1870, population, Strasburg Twp., Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1359, p. 324A, household 168, Jonathan Stauffer family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 February 2018); NARA microfilm publication M593, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
61870 Census, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1358, p. 162A, household 50, Henry Eckman family.
7Tenth Census of the United States: 1880, population, West Lampeter, Lancasteer County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 144, roll 1142, p. 488B, household 378, Franklin J. Weaver family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 February 2018); NARA microfilm publication T9; Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
81880 Cernsus, Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 167, roll 1143, p. 345C, household 18, Jacob Heidlebach family.
91880 Census, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 143, roll 1142, p. 465D, household 476, William Aument family.
10Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 98, p. 11, household 229, Albert Martin family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 9 March 2018); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
111900 Census, West Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 123, p. 1, household 3, Benjamin Herr family.
12Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, West Lampeter,, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 59, roll 1353, p. 8b, household 171, Benjamin F. Herr family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 March 2018); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
131910 Census, Lancaster, Lancaster Coiunty, Pennsylvania, ED 65, roll 1354, p. 3B, household 67, hotel of Elmer Fisher.
14Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, certificate 4411, Mary Gochnauer, 1916.
15Rodric R. Reese, "Gochenauer," family genealogy, (www.horseshoe.cc/gochenour.htm : accessed 2000). No longer online.
161860 Census, Providence, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, roll 1125, p. 598, household 101, John Gouchnauer family.
17Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, no. 25750, Ada Irene Herr, 1958.
18Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, Lancaster Co., lic. no. 2398, Herr-Martin, 1887; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 10 October 2019); County courthouses, Pennsylvania.
19Pennsylvania Department of Health, Death Certificates, 1906–1967, no. 27185, Benjamin F. Herr, 1942.
20Information on first four chjildren from: 1900 Census, West Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, ED 123, p. 1, household 3, Benjamin Herr family.
21Information on Bertha and her family from: Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, West Lampeter, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district (ED) 131, p. 6B, household 139, Benjamin Herr family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 October 2019); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

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Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950. Digital images. Family Search. familysearch.org : 2019.

Pennsylvania Department of Health. Death Certificates, 1906–1967. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2018.

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